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March 10, 2000

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Candace Crandall Named Adjunct Fellow at The National Center for Public Policy Research; Research to Focus on Women in Business

Press Release /
Candace C. Crandall has been named Adjunct Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., where she will work on cultural, demographic, and consumer issues related to women in business. Prior to joining The National Center, ...
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Internet Tax Could Doom Web’s Freebies

National Policy Analysis #278 /
Freebies that many Internet surfers now take for granted could be eliminated or scaled back if advocates of Internet sales taxes get their way. Over the past several years, some of the nation's governors and big-city mayors have been pushing ...
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I Never Expected to Say “I Do” to Higher Taxes When I Married

National Policy Analysis #281 /
My wife and I were married almost six months ago, but our marital bliss has been clouded. Our tax preparer recently told us we owed the government thousands more because of the "marriage tax." Nancy and I are proud of ...
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Anti-Biotechnology Policies Backed by Some Seattle Protesters Could Cause Preventable Starvation in the Developing World

Protesters disrupting the WTO meeting in Seattle are in part protesting programs that could be of great benefit to poor people in developing countries, says the National Center for Public Policy Research. One of the issues cited by protesters as ...
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Does Clinton Care About Civil Rights? Justice Department Refuses to Prosecute, Covers Up Alleged Black Murders

Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 question the Clinton Administration's sincerity in fighting crime that targets specific racial groups in light of revelations that the Clinton Justice Department allowed members of an organized crime operation - including one ...
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Black Judges and Blackface: Liberals Playing Race Card Riles Black Leadership Coalition

A politician in blackface and the liberal record of a black judge dominate politics in Missouri and raise the ugly and divisive specter of racial politics nationwide. Project 21 members deplore the use of the "race card" and the threat ...
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Environmentalists Try to Whip Up Hysteria to Advance Global Warming Treaty; No Evidence To Support Apocalyptic Claims that Major Cities will be Flooded

A recent study released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) alleging that rising sea levels caused by man-made global warming may flood New York and other U.S. cities over the next century is unsupported by scientific research, according to The ...
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President’s Road Ban Threatens Forest Health, Hinders Public Access: Roads in National Forests Are Vital for Firefighting and Recreational Access

President Bill Clinton's plan, announced on October 13, to ban additional road construction in 40 million acres of national forest wilderness to ostensibly protect pristine wilderness will have the opposite effect by inhibiting efforts to fight forest fires and preserve ...
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The Federal Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Economics, Bad Law & Bad Governing

The federal lawsuit against tobacco companies announced today by Attorney General Janet Reno is bad economics, bad law and bad governing, says a National Policy Analysis #255 paper published by The National Center for Public Policy Research. The paper points ...
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